After Jesus sends out seventy apostles to heal and proclaim the message of the kingdom, they return “with joy,” astonished and triumphant, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.” Jesus exults, foreseeing Satan’s impending defeat: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven: Behold, I have given you power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and upon every power of the enemy” (10:18–19).
